Episode 15: Live From CONvergence 2: Electric Boogaloo!
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Welcome to the August Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 15 is called “Live from CONvergence 2: Electric Boogaloo.” This episode brought together Squeecast regulars Lynne M. Thomas, Elizabeth Bear and Paul Cornell, and Very Special Guest Lois McMaster Bujold! In this episode we talked about:
- Bitter Seeds and The Coldest War , by Ian Tregellis (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (shared by Paul Cornell)
- Doctor Who, the Seventh Doctor‘s Era (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
- Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon, by by Jack Couffer (Shared by Lois McMaster Bujold)
We also had a rapidfire discussion of anime, and Lois answered our silly questions.
Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)
Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael D. Thomas for general administrative support. Extra special thanks to the programming team at CONvergence, especially Tim Wick, and Matt Allex, who made this recording possible.
August 29th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Hello! I just listened to this episode and was fascinated by the “Bat Bomb” concept.
You talked about how things might be different if bat bombs had succeeded in place of the atom bomb, and it occurred to me that it might have assured the end of humanity, or at least profound disaster. Because the obvious solution to such a threat is to eliminate it…and what happens when bats go extinct? Multiple ecologies thrown out of balance as insect populations are no longer held in check; pollinators absent; predators missing a food source.
Just an interesting thought.
Love the show! Best– VR Trakowski
August 29th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Thanks!
September 3rd, 2012 at 2:44 am
Delurking to say: Many congrats to the Squeecast on your Hugo win!
September 4th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Thank you very much!
September 5th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Thank you!
September 6th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
[...] there’s a new episode of the Hugo-award-winning podcast, SF Squeecast! Episode 15, live from ConVergence #2, Electric Boogaloo! is now live. It features Special Guest Lois! McMaster! Bujold! talkin about Bat Bombs, Paul Cornell [...]
September 10th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
[...] Three big publishers–Tor, Pyr, and Baen–had a major presence at the con and I even managed to snag a free copy of Ian Tregillis’s The Coldest War, which I had recently heard about on the SF Squeecast. [...]
September 11th, 2012 at 7:16 am
[...] edição mais recente tem Paul Cornell (sim, o mesmo de Doctor Who) recomendando William Gibson, Lois McMaster Bujold [...]
September 20th, 2012 at 9:16 am
How fun to hear Lois Bujold talking about the Bat Bomb in light of years of speculation about the “Incendiary Cat Plot”